Episode 968 Divine Power – 12
Inevitability is endowed upon the sword marks of the Cloud Sword [Kaeltarion], slowing his recovery until it eventually deteriorates and leads to physical death.
Lightly injured beings, quickly.Seriously injured beings, slowly.
The former dies from even a small wound, while the latter feels pain for a while before breathing its last. Thus, the sky-colored sword bestowed upon the second apostle is a divine weapon used to execute those who defy fate.
However, Verden’s faith countered [Kaeltarion]’s power. The demon, who was not killed instantly, rose above his fate with tenacious regenerative power.
[Our God is watching.]
The giant burning demon, whose waist had been severed by Arthur, brought down the tip of its flaming sword.
“Aaaaaaaah!”“My legs, my face……!”“Kyaaaah!”
The erupting heatwave burned the soldiers alive and melted them into liquid. Twelve nobles surged up and struck the demon’s lava stone face with their glaives.
Whoosh───Boom!
A demon’s hand, surging with vivid flames, grabbed and crushed the noble.The nobles rushed in.A red light, along with heat haze, flickered from the high-ranking demon’s body, and a volcanic explosion engulfed part of the human camp in high temperature.
[Exterminate the slaves of fate.]
Flame demons radiated sulfurous flames, and ice demons froze the surrounding area. Mental demons unleashed psychic waves that disrupted the senses and consciousness.Incantation mages dominated by fate countered with ancient magic.
A loud roar erupted.It was chaotic all around.
“These devil bastards……!”
[Krwaaa!]
A spear was thrust into the body of the beast demon that had been biting at weapons and arms. The tail the demon swung before dying smashed the female knight’s head.The massive monster demon charged with all its might, shattering the human defensive formation.
Screams and screams rampant from here and there.
“Ugh!”“Grr, gurgle.”
The half-demon saved by Verden mercilessly stabbed the neck of the human lying before him with a dagger that had just lost its master.Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump!The human, having abandoned even his own will, choked and gasped until the light faded from his eyes. He would be resurrected if fate returned, but this, too, was death.
Is it admirable that he stepped forward to war despite being a weak and imperfect demon? Is it pitiful that he struggles to survive with his own kind? Is it disgusting that, despite being a monster, he relentlessly kills others?
“Gasp, gasp……!”
The human and demonic parts are distorted amidst the war, stained with blood.
Humans hate the devil, andthe devil hates humans.
Humans accepted their fate, andthe devil rejected it.
The battlefield, swirling with rage and resentment fueled by murderous intent, was no different from the First Great Crusade where the four great saints of the Theocracy slayed the Legion’s archdemon, Molgarn.
Molgarn’s defeat and death are described as a great achievement of the Ruas Theocracy and a representative punishment for evil.
The devil is a ruthless monster who knows nothing but to deceive and kill others. The devil is so horrific that he does not know how to understand the mind. The devil must be exterminated. Humans who worship the devil must be judged;humanity has received such teachings through the transmission of knowledge over a long period of time.
However, the demons of the crevices spared no sacrifice, relying on their sincere faith. Demons, too, possess emotions granted to sentient beings. Demons know how to think deeply. Demons feel pain, and demons shed tears.These aspects of demons revealed a facet quite different from the history of humanity.
What is right?
History is a product of records. Evaluations vary depending on who recorded them. From a third-party perspective, it is unknown which of the two is the answer.He considered the possibility that both could be the answer, but he could not be certain.
There is only one thing that is certain.
History belongs to the victors.
If the devil had triumphed over humans, how would humans have been portrayed in history? Wouldn’t the meanings used to refer to the devil and humans have been different?
The world is far too generous to winners and endlessly harsh to losers. At the will of the winner, the loser is deprived even of the right to leave their mark.No matter how virtuous one may be, if recorded as a villain, one remains a villain.
perhaps…….
Even if the essence of a loser remains the same, the fact that this world does not acknowledge that essence may be no different from denying one’s existence.
If survival is about maintaining a lifeline, thenvictory is about preserving dignity.
If you lose, you lose everything.
There are no exceptions for ‘you’, Oldark, or Verden.
Holy Arcane: Reverse Star
The gray nebula covering the overhead reflected off the shaded floor. Pillars of starlight shot up from below, creating a flash of doom.
Arthur, having seen through every trajectory, cut unhesitatingly between the light and the light.
Whoosh, bang!
[Latir], additionally imbued with the Darkness of the Archdemon, thrust in from the side. Arthur, glaring at Hadras at close range, swung his elbow.It struck the torso of [Interis], who had flown in from behind, and a shockwave erupted.
The speed of the inspection has slowed significantly.
Before anyone realized it, Verden’s palm was almost touching Arthur’s torso.
Boom!
An internal shockwave tore through the inside. Arthur, having taken a clean hit for the first time, let out a faint groan and veins bulged in his temples.Seizing that opportunity, Hadras concentrated all his strength into his leg muscles.
Quaddd
Losing his balance and being pushed back in a straight line, Arthur bends his upper body and strikes Hadras’s lower back with the hilt of his sword.A punch unleashed immediately after unleashing a sword energy while attempting to stomp on the head of the Legion Commander lying on the ground.
Sob.
Verden, struck in the chest, swallowed blood and let out a shock. Having closed the distance to the point of leaving no gap, he drew out magical and divine power to unleash a repulsive force.Moving at high speed, they collided eight times in succession.
Even if the soul does not perish, the power of the Destroyer of Fate is finite. God’s weakness is the believer. If all the demons of the rift are eradicated, faith will lose its power.
To a being who has just become a god, the loss of a believer is fatal.It will kill even faith.
Arthur intended to strike the demons with humans bound by fate, while draining the opponent’s nerves. Without the unique power of the Fate Destroyer, the cycle of fate cannot be broken.
Eventually, when the number of vermin-like demons is sufficiently reduced and the divinity of the Destroyer of Fate is shaken, I will put an end to Hadras’s legions with a single technique.
The total amount of power restricted by the taboo has decreased from 40% to 30% of the total power. However, the perfection of the technique remains unchanged, so the Destroyer of Fate can never escape Arthur’s grasp.The power of the Destroyer of Fate alone cannot rival the strength of the First King of the Human World.
‘however.’
There was no sign of nervousness to be found in Verden’s blue eyes as he relentlessly launched an offensive. His fierce and sharp aura, like that of a predator, stirred up anxiety.
What on earth are they aiming for?
In an instant, Arthur’s eyes broadly took on the surrounding environment.The landscape of fierce battle drawn in the shadows of the gap.
A crack appeared in the pitch-black darkness.Space had shattered.
The traces of destruction caused by the Destroyer of Fate and Arthur were everywhere. However, some of them were connected like a boundary line.Coincidentally, the center of the conflict between demons and humans was in that vicinity.
‘What──’
Arthur still could not understand the Destroyer of Fate’s scheme. It was the limit of his imagination. However, his intuition alone reacted correctly, and he channeled his energy to hold his position.He had a feeling that he should not cross that boundary line, the purpose of which was unknown.
Paaaaat!
Verden’s [Interis] immediately emitted a dazzling gray light. The utterly ominous color momentarily erased Arthur’s senses.
Verden spun and stepped aside.The [Latir] thrown by Hadras pierced through space in a straight line.
Boom!
A power struggle ensued as the blade of Ungeom and the spearhead of [Latir] clashed fiercely. But that was only for a moment; as if by prearrangement, Verden swung [Interis].
BANG!
“……!!……!!!”
Like a hammer striking a chisel, the staff struck the base of the spear, fully transferring the divine power. A beam of light shot out from the Spear of the Sun, reacting to the divine power.Caught off guard and struck directly at point-blank range, Arthur was sent flying right out of the boundary line.
We maintained a minimum distance from the gradually weakening second apostle, and thanks to the demons’ struggle, we also secured a sufficient area to separate them.
‘[It must be now.]’
The Gray Dragon, who had known Verden’s thoughts from the beginning, judged that now was the opportune time.As he said, the conditions were met, so it was time to put it into action.
[All troops… … .]
Hadras gave the command with difficulty.No explanation is needed.The Legion Commander’s order is solemn. The hierarchy of demons is strict.
[Drive them out.]
The demons let out a terrifying scream in unison. The monstrous creatures began to thrash about wildly.Living, bizarre waves expanded their territory, pushing back front lines on all sides as they ground up or forced the destined humans to retreat.
Last resort.
Verden unleashed gray magic and lifted [Interis] into the air.
“Transform, Interis.”
Originally, only the output limit of the magic power circuit is completely released when the activation word is recited, but now that
The magical power overflowing from the ash-stained Orb shines brightly.Infinite magical power, the concept of destruction, the concept of annihilation, and dark gray magical power imbued with divine power encroached upon the shadows of the rift with the same color.
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Those who encountered a concept diametrically opposed to the source of fate froze. Arthur was no exception. He was ready to cross the boundary and slay the Fate Destroyer at any moment, but he could not bring himself to act.
“I can’t believe it. To think that the destiny I was given by ‘You’ is being suppressed… …?!”
Since the path a being takes is predetermined for having chosen the guidance of destiny, if the light of fate vanishes even for a moment, they lose their way and do not know where to go.Just like a wanderer walking through pitch-black darkness devoid of a single ray of light.
Kuoooooh.
Verden brought his hands together, placing his left hand down and his right hand up. Ash flared up in the space between the palms of the gauntlets facing each other.
This is the power of God.
When Verden became the master of [Interis] in the Black Volcanic Zone and made a bet with Grand Duke Rivandale, he realized the beginning of super-level magic.Applying Junia’s magic and using [Interis] as a medium, he combined blue and dark red magical powers to construct a single gray satellite.
It was a power whose form was incomplete to be strictly defined as magic. Nevertheless, picturing the scene that the gray magical power would manifest, he named it ‘Muheo’.
Gray light.Literally a flash.
Recalling that moment, Verden manifested his own power.
The Power of Emptiness
The ash of chaos awakened. At the same time, dark gray flames erupted from the traces of destruction forming the boundary, dividing demons and humanity.It was the trail of 666 starlights scattered toward the Apostles through the
From the moment he reached the 8th rank and mastered divinity, the moment he realized the power of the gods, Verden had been looking only at this moment from beginning to end.
The second apostle’s head was of no concern.
Verden’s goal was the salvation of the demons trapped in the rifts of the world. To that end, he designed a situation riddled with variables using magical thinking.
A wizard is one who prepares.
Verden is a wizard.
The boundary-splitting gray flame, reacting to the light bursting from within the hand, cut through the darkness to distinguish the inside and outside of the shadow in the gap.
A massive earthquake struck the entire space.
Not only hearing and touch, but the entirety of the senses of soul and body were in turmoil.It felt as if my insides were being crushed by an irresistible vibration, and my eardrums were being torn to shreds. The trembling of my soul did not cease.
“So you mean… you haven’t been using your power until now?”
Arthur could not hide his shock, but realizing the situation, he immediately looked down. Only then did he vaguely understand what Verden was after.
“No way—”
Crack!
The darkness upon which all of humanity of destiny stood—except for the shadow where the devil existed—collapsed into pieces. As it collapsed, their bodies floated upward.Darkness welcomed the humans who had fallen along with the shattered darkness, as if the earth had collapsed.
Even the death screams were swallowed.Everything was destroyed.The very source of space where natural things could exist, even for a moment, was annihilated.
Part of the world was destroyed.
